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Avon hosted four teams last Monday, April 11. Above, Rilyn Thury finishes the race strong, pushing ahead of the competition and placing first in a team relay. Photo by Nikki Fathke.
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“So the other disciples told [Thomas], ‘We have seen the Lord!’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in His hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe it’” (John 20:25 NIV).
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There’s a line from the movie “Bridges of Madison County” where Meryl Streep, playing an Italian transplant to an Iowa farm, says something to effect of, “The people here are all very nice, that’s true, but it’s kind of like meeting the same person over and over.”
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Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, was first listed as a medical diagnosis in 1980. However, it has been recognized and called by many different names throughout history. The first recorded description of PTSD is in the Epic of Gilgamesh which dates back to 2100 B.C. In The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer wrote about Trojan War soldiers exhibiting the symptoms of PTSD. Shakespeare described a character in King Henry IV who suffered from post-traumatic nightmares.
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Wagner Chamber held their Annual Farm, Home, Garden and Sports Show on Thursday, April 7th with approximately 40 vendor booths in attendance, The Knights of Columbus provided lunch at the concession stand. Photos by Barb Pechous.
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Funeral Mass for Margarette Schuurmans was held Friday, April 8 at St. John’s Catholic Church in Wagner. Burial was in St. John’s Catholic Cemetery, rural Wagner. Peters Funeral Home in Wagner was in charge of arrangements.
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